Beastie Boys ~ Shake Your Rump

Maybe not THE best, but on my Sampling Mt. Rushmore and the undisputed best remix ever.

De La Soul - Me, Myself and I

In fact, prettymuch anyone who used (Not Just) Knee Deep did a great job with the sample including Digital Underground on Kiss YOu Back and X Clan with Funkin' Lesson.

I like these and listened to them a lot when they were out:

Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers ~ Swing The Mood

Double Dee & Steinski ~ Lesson 2

M.A.R.R.S. ~ Pump Up The Volume

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince ~ Girls Ain't Nothin' But Trouble (I Dream Of Jeannie was one of my favorite shows)

Young MC ~ Bust A Move

George Michael ~ Waiting For That Day

They're not really samples, but I liked those 'Stars On 45' records too.

Technically, these were done with tape loops, as there were no samplers back then.

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The Beatles ~ Tomorrow Never Knows / For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite

There was also Revolution 9 and other Beatle songs. Delia Derbyshire and others were also doing this kind of thing.

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As much as I hate to admit it, "Ice Ice Baby".

Are you counting drum breaks? 'Cause that might need its own thread.

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Pete Rock & CL Smooth "T.R.O.Y."

woogiebear said:

Pete Rock & CL Smooth "T.R.O.Y."

Few if any are better.

One of the best beats of the century. From the greatest beatmaker of the century, J Dilla.

woogiebear said:

Pete Rock & CL Smooth "T.R.O.Y."

CLASSIC.

woogiebear said:

Pete Rock & CL Smooth "T.R.O.Y."

and this

In no particular order...

I wanted to hate this track after it crossed over, but there's no denying this remains one of the most compelling uses of JB source material ever in hip hop...

BRILLIANT hodge podge of classic funk and Civil Rights Era African Americana. For my money, the "Funky Drummer" drop at 1:07 might be the most effective 10 seconds of its use in hip hop. Those saxophones are like some funky reveille, and how genius are the El Hajj and Jesse Jackson soundbites?

I dug this track well enough when it first came out, but 20 year later, I have to say Eric B does a fantastic job of weaving together several pieces to come up with something that sounds thrilling, dangerous, mysterious and flat-out fun. I think most of the spooky atmosphere comes from Bob James' "Nautilus," which is impressive, because its presence here is actually quite understated relative to the other songs sampled.

I couldn't have cared less about NWA's internal crap, but after I heard this track I was squarely on Cube's side. Indifference could not stand in the wake of this Brick sample.

Never heard a bad use of this Gwen McRae sample, but I think Spice 1 used it best. (BO$$ cranked up the tempo for a more driving use in "Deeper," but she cut off too much of the guitar's melodic lines, IMHO.)

Not exactly genre-defining, but I love how BDP transformed Booker T's soulful jam session into something much harder here...

And Milk and Giz hooking M.C. Lyte up with an awesome reworking of Tommy Roe's "Sweet Pea." Love the use of his drum break throughout the song.

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Can't forget this track, arguably the best thing these gals ever did and one of the few moments of '90s R&B that I care to remember...

Piggybacking off of Mickey's contribution from The Beastie Boys, I like this one that was used for Car Thief . I just cheated and looked it up on whosampled.com .

Prince Paul, D J Premier and Dilla set a grand standard for using samples as did The Dust Brothers who worked on Paul's Boutique which is my favorite Beastie album.

Oh yeah, the drum part slowed down and looped from this song became...

THIS...

Courtesy of whosampled.com, brilliant!

p.s... EDIT , that is the NSFW full and uncensored version of Closer by NIN, be an adult and view at home.

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good picks all over!

in fact ther are just too many, impossible to pick a "best". but I immdiately had to think of Pauls Boutique surely

and of that passionate dude who has all those entertaining sample breakdown shows on youtube

and countless episodes on Top 10 Samples in Hip-Hop History

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DJ Premier always enjoys a certain degree of acknowledgement in threads like this. I've dug his work from the very beginning, but I think he can get bogged down occasionally in boring, obvious loops. This, however, is one of his best uses of several JB samples in one work. And its interlacing with the "Night in Tunisia" piano riff is brilliant...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/wa...BIjmPWHRak[/youtube]

I would say Dilla's entire discography complimented the samples he used.

Tina Turner's Urban Mix of "Golden Eye", which samples The Gap Band's "Outstanding".

I like the Big Audio Dynamite albums for their unique samples of music and dialogue.

Each segue was really fun and unique!

HMD82 said:

I would say Dilla's entire discography complimented the samples he used.

Indeed. Madlib's good at it too.

For example.

The Sylvers, "Only One Can Win" (also sampled in Jazzanova's "L.O.V.E. and You & I") (sample appears at :30 mark in chorus)

J Dilla, "Two Can Win."

Has anyone heard his Motown beat tape? I don't see how they didn't do a direct collaboration and given Dilla the keys to the Motown vault for remixes. The Detroit connection made it a no-brainer. For that matter, did he ever do any work with Motown other than production for Badu?

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Where is Cinnie? This thread wouldn't be complete without him.

Public Enemy's Fear Of A Black Planet album in its entirely.

Freak Nasty ~ Da Dip (at 1:45)

"Say...If It Feels Alright" by Crystal Waters samples "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire in its opening bar. Produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, 1994 and "Never Do You Wrong" by Stephanie Mills features a clever interpolation of George Benson's "Give Me The Night" throughout.